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Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...out of Portugal. Wellesley's successor, Sir John Moore, was killed at La Coruna, but his army was safely evacuated by sea, while Portugal and southern Spain remained unsubdued. Napoleon returned to Paris to deal with the threat from Austria, leaving the Spanish question unresolved. By January 1809 France's casualties in the Peninsular War exceeded her losses in all of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...out of education for maybe four or five years. Some of the young people have also been home educated for long periods of time. A lot of the young people that we look after are on care orders so they could be fostered, adopted or under special guardianship order. The challenges that I face every day with working with this specific group of children on the internet is that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...out these new ideas in your own practice...Online learning is now found in every area of education, from schools to skills training. More people than ever learn through online courses. Even where teaching is primarily ‘face to face’, online tools and interactions have become a key part of the learning experience. But teaching online is different. If you work in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...out to combine, as Lord Crowther hoped that it would combine, every kind of approach to learning, including printed and published materials, never obsolete, and personal tuition. The Open University will always have to take account of change, local change and global change, and its very openness will carry with it a unique vulnerability. I will do my best as chancellor to...
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Article 5 mins
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...out in competitive markets to people with more rational expectations. In a new book, Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy, Jens Beckert and I argue that all three of these assumptions are highly questionable. We argue that dynamic capitalist economies are characterised by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an...
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Article 10 mins
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...out that international trade competition could force less industrialised and less productive countries into a vicious cycle of poverty. He argued that governmental intervention was needed in a number of important areas: to break-up naturally-occurring monopolies to enforce contract and patent law to encourage innovation to provide public works such as roads and bridges to...
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Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...out on the boats or within housing and work on population forecasting. I worked with Social Services and moved to education (with some stops in between). This movement means you learn a great deal. Statistics in Social Services covers areas such as how many children are in care. Where are they? Are any regions giving rise to unusually high instances of referrals? How...
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Article 10 mins
A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...rural Ireland. Historians Geraldine Meaney, Mary O’Dowd and Bernadette Whelan point out that Irish women, because of developments in literacy and transatlantic communications, became aware of the opportunities available to them in the United States and could thus prepare for the challenges that would meet them across the Atlantic (Meaney, O’Dowd and Whelan, 2013, p.89). [Cartoon depicting a stereotype of an Irish domestic ......
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